Re: testing dist tarballs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: testing dist tarballs
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Msg-id ccfbf843-574b-ec0a-d26a-090fc493af4b@eisentraut.org
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In response to testing dist tarballs  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On 24.05.23 23:24, Andres Freund wrote:
> First thing I noticed that 'make dist' doesn't work in a vpath, failing in a
> somewhat obscure way (likely because in a vpath build the the copy from the
> source dir doesn't include GNUMakefile). Do we expect it to work?

I don't think so.

> Separately, it's somewhat confusing that we include errcodes.h etc in
> src/backend/utils, rather than its final location, in src/include/utils. It
> works, even without perl, because copying the file doesn't require perl, it's
> just generating it...

The "copying" is actually a symlink, right?  I don't think we want to 
ship symlinks in the tarball?




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